Curated Video
Are Violent Video Games Bad For You?
You might have heard that playing violent video games makes people more aggressive, but is it true or is it just a myth?
TED Talks
TED: What role does luck play in your life? | Barry Schwartz
Chance plays a far bigger role in life than we're willing to admit, says psychologist Barry Schwartz. Of course, working hard and following the rules can get you far -- but the rest could boil down to simple good fortune. Schwartz...
TED Talks
TED: How your personality shapes your politics | Dannagal G. Young
Social psychologist Dannagal G. Young breaks down the link between our psychology and politics, showing how personality types largely fall into people who prioritize openness and flexibility (liberals) and those who prefer order and...
TED Talks
Sara Valencia Botto: When do kids start to care about other people's opinions?
Drawing on her research into early childhood development, psychologist Sara Valencia Botto investigates when (and how) children begin to change their behaviors in the presence of others -- and explores what it means for the values we...
SciShow
Why You See Monsters in the Mirror
Staring into the mirror in a dark room can play some nasty tricks on your brain. Like many illusions, this can tell us about how your brain processes images.
Curated Video
Why You Can't Win an Internet Argument
One of the internet's favorite pastimes is arguing, but very few of those arguments ever actually go anywhere. It can be frustrating to watch, but scientists have some ideas on why things play out the way they do.
Curated Video
Harnessing the Media
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, University of Stanford, highlights the critical role the media plays in communicating research insights to the general public and muses on how psychologists can best take advantage of the power of the media...
Curated Video
Ethics and Ethical Issues
This film opens with Milgram's famous obedience experiments and the part they played in producing much stricter ethical guidelines for the protection of participants. The second part of the film looks at an on-going research project to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Howard Stevenson - Teachers Make a Difference - Harriett Jeglum
Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Miscommunication and Misunderstanding
Mikki vs the World is a creative, funny, and factual series designed to help teens get a grip on what’s happening inside their heads. Dr. M is struggling to communicate with Jade, so she turns to a fellow psychologist to ask for advice....
Science360
Monkey Business
Most of us can understand how we feel if someone else gets a better reward for doing the exact same work we did. Researchers are studying how these feelings of inequity evolved and if primates have the same sense of inequity. Sarah...
Curated Video
Lucy Rescued
When Lucy's new owners rescue her from the pound, the little girl shows Lucy around her new home. Then suddenly, Lucy starts to howl. “Wah-ooo-ooo-roo,” Lucy howls in the morning. She keeps howling in the afternoon, then on into the...
Science360
Harvard University researcher wants to fix faulty learning
Susan Carey discusses her interest in studying abstract knowledge. Under a National Science Foundation-funded INSPIRE project, Harvard University psychologists Susan Carey and Deborah Zaitchik are studying how executive function...
Curated Video
The Sally-Anne Test
UCL development psychologist Uta Frith describes the so-called “Sally-Anne” test or “false belief” test that she and her colleagues used to determine that autistic children generally have great difficulty in ascribing beliefs and desires...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Divergent Interests
Mikki vs the World is a creative, funny, and factual series designed to help teens get a grip on what’s happening inside their heads. Mo is bummed that his friends don't want to play a videogame with him anymore. Dr. M doesn't think it's...
SciShow
Why We Love Music | A Very Jingly Compilation
Here in North America it's the time of year that we have a little more jingle in our bells than usual, but luckily there's a lot of science to explain exactly why music mistles our toes the way it does. Chapters View all skin orgasm 1:02...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is it normal to talk to yourself? | TED-Ed
Being caught talking to yourself can feel embarrassing, and some people even stigmatize this behavior as a sign of mental instability. But decades of research show that talking to yourself is completely normal; most if not all of us...
TED Talks
TED: The science behind how parents affect child development | Yuko Munakata
Parents, take a deep breath: how your kids turn out isn't fully on you. Of course, parenting plays an important role in shaping who children become, but psychologist Yuko Munakata offers an alternative, research-backed reality that...
TED Talks
Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
The Royal Institution
The Science of the Voices in your Head – with Charles Fernyhough
Psychologist Charles Fernyhough reveals how our inner voices play a vital part in thinking through stories of everyone from children to people who hear voices. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/e6Rvae1IBms Subscribe for regular...
Big Think
Jordan Peterson’s guide to leadership
Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink I suppose this touches on the psychology of leadership too—which is a...
Kids Academy
Letter C Alphabet - Learn the Alphabet | Phonics | Kids Academy
Welcome our new video: Letter C Alphabet - Learn the Alphabet | Phonics. Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/iG2Bdr Check our new videos of learning alphabets funny and interactive. #TalentedAndGifted #LearnWithKidsAcademy Kids...
Curated Video
Reliability and Validity: making friends
Psychologists have told us a lot about human behaviour. But to what extent can we trust the findings? This film looks at the part played by reliability and validity in helping to answer this question. Reliability and external and...
Science360
Babies And Learning
Are we pre-wired to know right from wrong or are we blank slates who learn solely by our exposure to the environment? The question isn't new, but by studying the behavior of newborns, psychologist Karen Wynn of Yale University believes...